European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 6, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 25 in i if Cher. Spandex express Paul Tsongas. Robed disclosure Shirley Maclaine. Already done it to Jackson. Have a seat Wnm Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hock some jewelry Bodine latest to Bob up on sleds by Dave George Cox news service the Venus Flytrap of the olympic movement has claimed another victim. Please please done to read any further if the bobsled and luge events spark your interest in the least. By the Bottom of this column it might be too late to regain control of your life. Herschel Walker fight the feeling and look where it got him in trouble with the Minnesota Vikings for missing practice time and publicly humiliated As a world class athlete who failed against a Bunch of human Popsicle when push came to shove. The other . Slidders froze Bodine Walker out be tween the two Man and four Man bobsled competitions at the Albertville games in february. Mutiny on the Mountain. More and More top athletes like Edwin Moses and Willie Gault Are drawn like penguins to the top of the Bob run looking Fine looking smug. And then after a few wild slides to the Bottom looking like they rented the fancy outfit and had Best return it before it becomes irreparably soiled. Now comes Geoff Bodine out of the closet and into the cold. Yes he too is a Boba Holic dissatisfied with life As a Stock car driving Star. Not enough thrills in his line of work apparently. Jethro Bodine the Beverly hillbilly dreamed of being a brain surgeon. Geoff wants to build Gold medal bobsled. To each several million dollars and a Little Idle time seemed sufficient resources. A a in a very committed to this a said Bodine the Driver not the hillbilly. A the last olympic Gold medal won by the . Team was in 1932 and that was in the last bobsled built Here. You re not going to get the Best a foreign country has to offer because to Eye re always going to keep the Best for themselves. A is there a place for Bodine in a world without pit stops where drafting Isnit encouraged and moist chewing tobacco freezes up like a prune pit inside of two minutes he seemed to think so in March when members of the . Olympic bobsled team invited him for a trial run on the Lake Placid course. Devious these Bobbie. The first ride was free. Now that Bodine is hooked on the patriotic High of red Cheeks White eyebrows and Blue lips hell have to pay dearly to feed the obsession. Already the Oxford conn., shop that once built modified Lascar Chassis for Bodine is being converted to a sled shed. Technicians and aerodynamic experts will work there to produce Bullet bobs in time for the 1994 Winter games in Norway. No design plans have been released but watch for spoilers Roll bars and Beer logos. How Many other celebrities will be to blinked to the Effort for publicity purposes Here Are some Likely targets accompanied by the personalized line . Olympic committee members might use to draw them in. A Cher a a think of the video. Hot music. Cold steel. Spandex body suit. Skip the helmet and you be even got a new look to Market at hair salons frosted ice sculpture. Lets do a Paul Tsongas a a satisfy that need to keep fit and stay Active but not in a Speedo. Frankly full disclosure Hurt you in this area in the primaries a Shirley Maclaine a a you be done this before Shirl Back in 1873, but with a Handlebar Mustache and a German accent. Trust a Carl Sagan a a amazing research Opportunity. Experience life inside a Comet. Recreation of big bang a distinct a Santa Claus a a Sample our new technology. Cut your travel time from nil a. Newfoundland to new South Wales from five hours to a Jose Canseco a drive like a maniac and get called a Patriot not a Yahoo. Seat Belt not required. Tape deck a Mark calcavecch1a, John Daly Lanny Wadkins and fuzzy Woelter a a tired of Slowpoke in your sport Guys you can finish our course in 60 seconds Flat. Fastest foursome wins. Any questions a a Eddie a the Eagle Edwards a a fall that a required is that you get to the Bottom of the Hill alive. Upside Down or backward does no to work real Well in the ski jump but Here its no problem. No articular standards. No stopping you. International press will be waiting. Bring a Zsa Zsa Gabor a a it a just not fair is it your highness the Prince of Monaco has his own sled and a Bunch of swell olympic stories to Tell at parties. Why not turn in a brooch or two and buy your own team in the name of american Royalty a a to Jackson a a Here a a sport you can dominate sitting Down just do it Bodine May see any or All of these bumping around his bobsled shop As the Lillehammer Norway olympics draw near. Its a fever. Its an itch. And it looks so easy. Kicks end pistons reign of terror by William c. Rhoden the new York times commentary Click. Actually i began counting Detroit out on my personal clock at this time last year after the surly Defeated pistons walked off the court against Chicago without so much As shaking hands. That particular game and that entire playoff series had been marked by cheap shots mostly from Detroit and the sort of mean spirited play that had come to characterize so called bad boy basketball. Normally the underhanded tactics that a team May employ to obtain a particular goal carries Little weight with me in terms of an assessment of a game or performance. What a fair is fair. As Detroit nurtured its bad boy image however there seemed to be something particularly counterproductive about its gangster esque approach to the game. The National basketball association playoffs seem to set the tone for summer playground basketball games and the culture surrounding the games. When los Angeles waa winning everyone on the Street wanted to Gin. Finesse was in. Detroit on the other hand seemed to feed into a gloomier More sinister undercurrent of Gonella basketball in which the defining ethic was no blood no foul. There a wrong with that in theory except that the pistons tried to at least draw blood. Chicago thankfully ushered in a new Era of finesse Ball. That wont help the kicks next week but Given the climate of the times with everyone seemingly on a hair trigger Edge it just seems better not to energize any concept with bad or boy attached to it. Critics say what the pistons play is not basketball this is not precisely True. One of the Beautiful things about basketball is that it is a fluid highly intuitive game that can assume the personality of a team or individual players. Basketball can be what you want it to be. For the last few seasons Detroit has folded a hybrid style with the leagues blessings that is one third Alley Ball one third Rugby and a third of what you and i recognize As traditional basketball. Its not popular but it has worked. It took the bulls three years to finally break through. Sunday the kicks solved what was left of the bad boy Puzzle but it took them All of three periods to figure it out before that the kicks who had spent two weeks getting emotionally psyched for pushes and shoves had come precariously close to being sucked into the quagmire patrolled by Mark Aguirre Dennis Rodman Bui Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas. At one Point Anthony Mason was nearly dragged in by Aguirre and Rodman. During a jump Ball Rodman and Aguirre stood shoulder to shoulder and refused to move when Mason tried to take his rightful spot Between them. Aguirre shoved him away and for a split second Mason entertained the notion of asking an official to intercede. He instantly realized what a Blunder that would have been and confronted Rodman. A i knew that it was my space a Mason said smiling. A but its fun to get a Little physical every now and then. The Way the game was going we were going to take this from them they were going to take this from us a it was All just in the flow of the game. So i was going to take the and the kicks took the series. Now the difficult part begins. After expending so much emotional Energy preparing for Detroit land mover style of play the kicks must now prepare for Chicago a sleek Ferrari and its heralded Driver Michael Jordan. There was optimistic talk from the kicks after sundays game that they would play the bulls a and Jordan a with the same sort of hard nosed defensive tactics they had used against Detroit. Nice thought. Good tuck. Unfortunately the kicks wont be Able to use sundays lesson against Detroit next season indeed the pistons As we have known them May not exist. Sometime during the next two weeks Chuck Daly is expected to announce his resignation As Detroit a he Acoach. Dalys departure is expected to be the first of Many shakeup As the pistons retool. And the kicks can take Comfort in the fact that it presided Over the end of Detroit a reign of terror. Click
